{"id":212,"date":"2011-06-15T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?p=212"},"modified":"2011-06-15T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T04:30:00","slug":"day-5-lakeview-to-susanville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/day-5-lakeview-to-susanville\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 – Lakeview to Susanville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We awoke in Lakeview to the sound of trucks rumbling past our hotel window.\u00a0 We went to bed knowing that we were in a corner room closest to the intersection so it wasn’t a complete surprise.\u00a0 The thing that was a surprise was just how comfortable the Tempurpedic mattress was.\u00a0 When we were looking for mattresses a long while back we’d avoided them because Angie read something about them “canoeing” in the middle, but last night may have just changed her mind.\u00a0 Anyway, completely off topic.\u00a0 Back to the road report.<\/p>\n

After having our complementary breakfast we hit the road heading out towards Susanville.\u00a0 Maybe it was the good nights sleep (again with the mattress!), or that the route was a whole heck of a lot more pleasant to ride, but it was a good day.\u00a0 We essentially followed US Route 395 south to CA Route 139 and took that down into Susanville.\u00a0 The road was just the right amount of twisty, the right amount of flat, and the right amount of hills.<\/p>\n

On our way south we had to go through the CA fruit embargo<\/a>.\u00a0 We were both carrying contraband apples from OR so we were ready to leap into action should we be stopped and questioned.\u00a0 I’d planned to toss my apple to Angie and hold the fruit police at bay while she destroyed the evidence.\u00a0 However, the fruit police didn’t stop us and merely waved us through.\u00a0 So much for the fruit outlaw myth I was hoping to create.<\/p>\n

We stopped in Alturas for a quick bite at the donut shop I saw the last time we were there, and it turned out to be a great idea.\u00a0 However, as we were wrapping up the county Sheriff came in for some donuts (no cliche there).\u00a0 Were we busted!?\u00a0 Angie had gone to the restroom, so I was left on my own with the contraband.\u00a0 What to do?\u00a0 He gave me the stink eye as he left with his three glazed donuts, and I tried not to meet his stare.\u00a0 But damn!\u00a0 He was out in the parking lot as we left.\u00a0 Gingerly leaving, and making sure not to look overly suspicious we left the parking lot without a police tail.<\/p>\n

Back on the road we hurtled along.\u00a0 As mentioned above CA Route 139 is pretty cool, albeit in need of some repair.\u00a0 After a long while on the road we stopped in a turn out to eat the evidence against us.\u00a0 While we were pulled off we took a bunch of arty pictures that we’ll frame.<\/p>\n

After arriving in Susanville it was hellishly hot, mid-80’s by one estimate at on a bank’s sign.\u00a0 We left the bikes behind and decided to walk into the “Historic District” which I was hoping had some neat shops, etc.\u00a0 First, the scale on the map in the hotel room is wildly inaccurate.\u00a0 It was easily a fortyfive minute walk there, and the sun was blazing down on us.\u00a0 After the march the shops fell into one of three categories:\u00a0 not interested (barbers, yoga, etc), closed, or for sale\/empty.\u00a0 So back we trudged.\u00a0 The one highlight of that excursion was we stopped at the trail head for a rails-to-trails convert.\u00a0 The guy at the museum gave us some water and left us on our own to learn about the railroad history of the town.<\/p>\n

When we arrived back at the hotel after dinner we got a super tip from a bicyclist on heading out to the coast via CA Route 299.\u00a0 Looking it up on the map it looks like curve heaven.\u00a0 Totally going to try and work that into the plan later on this week.<\/p>\n

Not yet done with the day we headed across the street for two games of bowling at a mini-bowling center (only ten lanes).\u00a0 The first lane we were on the ball return belt kept hopping out of the pinsetter.\u00a0 The staff moved us to another lane, but that didn’t have a full complement of pins so every third frame we needed to hit the reset button.\u00a0 This was the first time in a non-Brunswick house in years and years (think High School).\u00a0 So the experience was pretty disappointing.<\/p>\n

Pictures from Day 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We awoke in Lakeview to the sound of trucks rumbling past our hotel window.\u00a0 We went to bed knowing that we were in a corner room closest to the intersection so it wasn’t a complete surprise.\u00a0 The thing that was a surprise was just how comfortable the Tempurpedic mattress was.\u00a0 When we were looking for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-ride-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}